YSTRADVELLTEY - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"YSTRADVELLTEY, a parish in the hundred of Devynnock, county Brecon, 15
miles S.W. of Brecknock. The parish, which is divided into Upper and Lower,
contains Pont-neath-Vaughan, and is situated on the Roman way Via Julia
Montana, which is joined about 3 miles from the village by the Sarn Helen
way, leading from the Vale of Neath to the Gaer, near Brecon. The Mellte,
Hepste, and Purthen falls are visited from this place, and near the church
a branch of the river Mellte disappears and flows underground as far as
Porth-yr-Ogof, where the river again emerges through a cavern lined with
calcareous spar, about 40 feet high, 20 wide, and 1,800 in length. The
living is a curacy united with that of
Devynnock. The charities produce about £50 per annum."

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